Fence



(No Model.)

J. H. GRAIN.

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No. 410,494. Patented Sept. 3, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES HARVEY GRAIN, OF MOUNDS JUNCTION, ILLINOIS.

FENCE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 410,494, dated September 3, 1889.

Application filed April 2, 1889- Serial No. 305,688. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern-.-

Be it known that I, JAMES HARVEY GRAIN, of Mounds Junction, in the county of Pulaski and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fences; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in fences.

The object is to provide means for constructing a simple, durable, and inexpensive fence capable of being easily repaired or moved from place to place; and it consists of cables or strips of material having sufficient strength to sustain the necessary weight of pickets or palin gs, and having means there on for preventing lateral displacement of the pickets.

It further consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in plan of the construction shown in Fig. 1; and Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are modifications.

A represents a wire or cable. This wire is crimped or kinked, as shown in Fig. 2, for the purpose of preventing lateral displacement of the pickets, as well as furnishing the required support for them. The wires-two, three, or moreare stretched from post to post and secured one above the other, and the pickets are secured to them. In Figs. 1 and 2 the pickets are held onto the cables by means of staples 1, large enough to embrace the pickets and be bent around the cable at the edges of the pickets. These staples are prevented from sliding on the cables by the crimps, kinks, or projections on the wire, which it is impossible for the staples to pass. Aside from these crimps the wires or cables might be furnished with raised points or projections or with interspaces, all of which serve precisely the same end namely, to prevent the staples from moving endwise upon the wires or cables.

Another mode of fastening the pickets to the wires or cables is by means of small staples. (Shown in Fig. 3.) These staples are made just large enough to receive the wires or cables at one end and adapted to be driven into the pickets.

Still another manner of securing the pickets and preventing lateral displacement is to employ narrow strips or ribbons of metal, as shown in Fig. 4:, having projections at short intervals 011 their edges. These strips are by preference flat on one side, against which the pickets are placed and rounded 011 the other side, as shown, and the staples are placed obliquely on the strips and driven into the pickets, so that their ends enter distinct parts of the pickets thus with less liability to split the wood. Again, the staples could be driven through the pickets and bent around the wires or cables.

Still another mode of attaching the pickets is by wrapping short Wires around the cable, as shown in Fig. 5, in such a manner as to leave one or both ends free to be bent and forced into the edges of the pickets, the wrapping to be in such form as to permit of their ready adjustment to other curves or indentations in the cables, and thus readily to maintain the perpendicular in the erection of fences; and still another mode is by forming the cable of two or more strands, as in Fig. 6, so plated or crossed as to leave the interspaces alluded to above for staple or nails; or else the strands for the cable may be placed in position and crossed as the pickets are adjusted, and staples or nails driven to hold them in place.

It is evident that different forms of cables and staples might be employed, and that other slight changes might be resorted to in the form and arrangement of the. several parts described without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention, and hence I do not wish to limit myself to the particular construction herein set forth; but,

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. In a fence, the combination, with a cable transversely crimped or corrugated through- In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JAMES HARVEY GRAIN.

Witnesses:

HARRY A. WELSH, J. H. PETERSON. 

